Leon was taken aback by David’s situation.
‘Hmmph, and he tried to make me absorb that strange so-called energy after killing Evelyn!’
‘Thankfully, I didn’t do it. My body is much frail compared to David whose body has become so much tougher now…after the help from the old man.’
‘If I was in so much pain, I would have died directly.’
The old man got a little anxious,
“This is too bad even if we help him, his strength would be fixed and won’t be able to increase in the future!”
“Hurry, let’s take him to my house.”
“My wife has an ancient medicine that can at least stabilize him for now!”
If Elandor was here he would have laughed at David’s stupid actions, unlike him who had the luck-devouring lotus which can devour and refine luck and the protagonist’s opportunities into the purest form of energy to raise one’s strength, David’s approach toward Eve was much cruder and the energy he obtained was much less & full of impurities, enough to make one’s foundation unstable.
Without wasting much time the old man took David to his home while Leon followed behind.
….
In a faraway forest, two girls were lying on the ground.
Their bodies had many injuries.
They were Eve and Evelyn respectively who barely managed to escape alive.
By this time Eve was fully awake.
She opened her eyes and saw a piece of cloth being tied around her chest, where she was stabbed by David. She remembered her sister tying it on her body to stop her bleeding while she was in her arms.
As he tilted her head she saw her sister Evelyn, lying beside her.
Her head was bleeding as she was unconscious.
Eve took a deep breath as she recalled all the things that happened a while ago.
With her half-opened eyes, she had already witnessed the true face of Leon and David.
She tore a piece of cloth from her skirt as she tied it around Evelyn’s head to stop her bleeding.
As a strong shield-warrior, Eve had a strong body and her resilience was pretty high.
One or two stabs won’t threaten her life as long as her heart was not pierced.
She knew as long as she managed her wound properly, she would be able to recover.
After bandaging Evelyn, Eve looked around and found a small pond.
She used all her strength to move toward the pond while dragging Evelyn along.
She looked at her skirt which was already torn by her seconds ago, then looked at Evelyn as she gave a wry smile.
Shamelessly, she tore a piece from Evelyn’s skirt as she wetted it in the pond to clean herself and her sister
After cleaning the wounds on her body and her sister’s, she tried to wake up Evelyn by sprinkling water droplets on her face using her slender fingers.
Evelyn slowly opened her eyes.
She stared at Eve as she tried to get up.
Seeing her actions, Eve got excited.
“Sister, are you alright?”
“Thank you so much for saving me!”
Evelyn just looked at her blankly.
“Sister?”
“I have a sister?”
“Wait, my name is….”
“Uggh! Why can’t I remember anything?”
She looked at Eve with some alertness in her eyes.
“Who are you?”
“Why are you calling me sister and why can’t I remember my name and other important details?”
Upon hearing her, Eve was dumbfounded.
She tried to ask many questions from Evelyn,
But soon she realised the harsh reality, her sister didn’t seem to remember anything!
‘Maybe it’s because she was hit in the head by the old man’s spell at the last moment and lost her memory?’
Eve took a deep breath as she explained some important things to her and told her that she is Evelyn, her sister!
She deliberately didn’t tell her anything about Leon and David as she thought it would once again make her sister’s heart ache.
At first, Eve wanted to kill herself as she thought she no longer had any reason to exist after being abandoned by David but when she got up and witnessed her sister suffering from amnesia, she decided to live until she helped her sister to recover her memory.
After her mother’s demise, her sister was the only close member of her family who loved her. She didn’t want to leave her just like that.
After recuperating for an hour Eve once again checked her surroundings.
With her natural scouting abilities, she quickly figured out that they teleported near the kingdom of Light’s main city where Elandor must have headed to!
As she looked at Evelyn who was acting like a 5-year-old trying to catch a squirrel, Eve was lost in a dilemma.
She knew that there must be countless people dispatched by the king to catch her since she was already a wanted criminal after helping David to escape from prison.
After remembering the hungry and greedy eyes of Leon and David, Eve knew they would definitely follow after them to silence them as they feared that they may leak all the evil things that they did in the abandoned city to the common people.
She had nowhere to go, she still needed to find a place to live, worry about food while they had no money, take care of her sister and at the same time avoid the pursuit of the greedy brothers.
“Sister Eve, look I caught this squirrel!”
“It was too fast but somehow I managed to catch it.”
Evelyn looked at Eve with her innocent-childish eyes.
Seeing her like this, Eve’s heart became heavy.
“It’s good, you are really fast compared to others.”
“Even I can’t catch that squirrel which is too fast.”
Evelyn giggled as she heard her sister’s words.
“Hehe! Yes, I am awesome.”
Eve made up her mind she must flee with Evelyn, she won’t let her sister be sacrificed.
Suddenly Eve remembered an important detail.
‘Yes, how can I forget about Elandor?”
“He must have already reached the main city of the kingdom of Light.”
“Since David has an enmity with him, why don’t I take refuge in him?”
“After all, the enemy of your enemy is your friend!”
“Me and my sister’s miserable condition is due to him, he owes us too much.”
“If we join our forces, together we can have a chance in fighting against those greedy brothers.”
“Also, I have important information regarding David’s new backers as well as his new strength.
I am pretty sure given his crafty character, Elandor would definitely want such juicy details.”
“With it, I may be able to negotiate a deal with him.”
Having made up her mind she called Evelyn who already regarded her as a trustworthy person.
“Sister Eve, what happened?”
“Why did you call me, I want to play more,”-spoke Evelyn with her pouty face.
“My sister, I want to take you to a big city!”
“We can eat a lot of delicious food there and will be able to see a lot of new places”, Eve tried to coax her sister.
Hearing her sister’s word, Evelyn got excited.
“Let’s go! What are we waiting for?”
Eve looked above at the sun that was about to rise.
“Hopefully we can reach there by tomorrow afternoon.”
After quickly figuring out the directions, Eve along with her sister headed toward their new destination.
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A/N thanks a lot to people who are sending ps to my new book and supporting it, I would update it with some lovey-dovey chs shortly😊
